A career within Corporate and Business Strategy services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients solve their toughest problems and seize essential advantages by defining and evaluating strategies of all types. We analyse business and market trends to explore new approaches that help our clients make tough choices and surpass the competition. At both the business unit and corporate level, we help organisations with organic enterprise growth, pricing and profitability, shareholder value, and sustainable corporate strategies.

Responsibilities

As a Director, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to

Proactively lead the practice by setting strategy, drive the development of new business in the market, and provide technical advice across disciplines

Building strong networks within the firm to spot and capitalise on opportunities to get involved in projects that others are leading across a number of different business units and sectors

Responsibility to shape and deliver various projects that exceed the expectations of our clients and our own assignment quality criteria

Manage and deliver large projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team

Responsibility for management of engagement financials

Helping to grow and develop our team through hands on training and coaching

Key Role and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Partner and Principal/Director team, key responsibilities are to manage individual work-streams on client assignments, structure the work schedule and support driving each assignment to a successful conclusion

Planning and managing the delivery of quality work as part of the project team

Directing the quantitative analysis, assessing the depth required for an individual work-stream on each assignment, translating the analysis into useful findings and quality assuring the results in conjunction with project leadership

Work with project leadership to define the source and level of data gathering necessary and judge the necessity of client interviews and the strategic content of those interviews

Responsible for managing the development of junior team members (internal and client) during the length of each project and identifying opportunities for them to grow and build their skills

Building productive and lasting client relationships at all levels

Building productive and lasting relationships within the PwC Network at all levels and be seen as a valued member of the office community –contributing to internal, firm-building activities proactively

Requirements

We are seeking to recruit a highly experienced Consumer or Retail professional with a clear record of achievement and progression in both a leading consulting firm and a blue chip consumer goods focussed corporate environment.

The Consultant must be intellectually curious, demonstrate strong problem solving skills, feel comfortable working with large amounts of quantitative data taking a structured, hypothesis driven approach and be able to lead consulting teams and assignments

Candidates must have extensive FMCG industry experience in Business Strategy and Operations teams within Consumer Goods and/or Retail and will be expected to demonstrate functional expertise across a range of Consumer and Retail topics with a deep focus on one or more topics such as;

Undergraduate degree from a top tier university, likely to Masters level

Significant international experience including Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa

Excellent client handling skills with experience of leading external client projects and/ or large scale strategy and operations change programmes

Strong oral and written communication skills with ability and flexibility to operate successfully from boardroom to shop floor.

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

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